All About Prince Andrew, the British Royal Stripped of His Titles

Late Queen Elizabeth II’s ‘favourite’ child and the brother of King Charles III, Andrew has been stripped of his titles and evicted from his residence, the Royal Lodge Mansion. This comes in the wake of his links

to convicted paedophile and sex offender financier Jeffrey Epstein. For 40 years, he was known as the Duke of York, but he will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. He has always denied any allegations made against him.The son of Queen Elizabeth and the late Prince Philip, Andrew was married to Sarah Ferguson for six years. They separated in 1992 but continued living in the same house to raise their daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, together. His daughters hold their titles by birthright.“We’re very happy with the way things are. I think the great thing is we absolutely are the most extraordinary example of a unified family,” said Sarah in a 2016 interview for an Australian radio station.Sarah is the author of several children’s books, including Tea for Ruby, Budgie Goes to Sea, and Travels with Queen Victoria, among many others.He might have been the third child, but he was the first to have been born to a reigning monarch in more than a century. Andrew was born on 19 February 1960, and Elizabeth had been crowned Queen in 1953. Alongside King Charles III, his siblings are Princess Anne and Prince Edward.Before the Epstein scandal caught up with him, Andrew had a career in the Royal Navy and is known to have served in the Falklands War. “According to Buckingham Palace, Prince Andrew wanted to be a helicopter pilot since he was a child. After finishing boarding school, he joined the Royal Navy in 1979 and spent the next two years completing flight training. In 1981, Prince Andrew received his wings and the Best Pilot Award from his father, Prince Philip,” write Lynsey Eidell and Christopher Rudolph for People.In 2001, he retired from the Royal Navy, holding the rank of Commander at the time of his retirement. In 2022, Andrew was stripped of his military roles and royal patronages. He had been the honorary Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, whose soldiers stand guard outside Buckingham Palace in their distinctive bearskin hats and red tunics. The removal of his military roles came after more than 150 Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and British Army veterans wrote to the Queen, urging her to take action.